• Europe risks dying and faces big decisions

    The French president delivers a stark warning for Europe to act fast to survive in a changing world.

  • Coal miners have long faced risk of black lung disease. Now they’re getting new protections

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as black lung disease, the Labor Department said Tuesday as it issued a new federal rule on miners' safety. The final rule, announced by []

  • Adams: Jewish Students Are Facing What Black Students Faced in Little Rock

    On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that Jewish students are “going through” the same experience as black students did in Little Rock when they had “to be escorted on campuses because

  • Big Tech: After long peace, Big Tech faces US antitrust reckoning

    After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile cases underway that could radically change the way the industry's giants do business.Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major cases from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are moving forward against major US technology companies -- including two against Google that could see the company split...

  • Trump faces political risks as trial begins

    As Donald Trump the candidate overlaps with Donald Trump the defendant, new polling finds that many crucial independent voters consider his trial to be a serious issue. NBC News' Hallie Jackson reports.

  • Stadium Plan Unveiled by Bears Faces Economic Challenges

    Soldier Field opened in 2003 but would be torn down with the old colonnades

  • The next big Mario game is already discounted before launch

    Hold on to your Joy-Cons Switch fans, the next big Mario game to hit the system has just been given a pre-launch price cut. I am of course talking about the Switch port of the Nintendo GameCube classic, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which did have a set price of £49.99 but now you can pre-order the title through Very for just £37.99. If you’re the type of person who simply has to have every Mario game as it comes out then that is an instant win, and easily one of the biggest price...

  • Double tragedy highlights risk in Black maternal deaths

    Ebony Johnson could never have imagined that the day after Mother’s Day — her 39th birthday — she will also celebrate the life of twin daughters who died shortly after birth three weeks ago.

  • Breakfast briefing: Risks facing the global economy pile up

    China new yuan lending underwhelms; China exports drop; India industrial production up; US sentiment dips; bitcoin falls; UST 10yr 4.52%; gold slips but oil holds; NZ$1 = 59.3 USc; TWI-5 = 69.2

  • World's workers increasingly at risk as climate changes, ILO says

    GENEVA: More than 70 per cent of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, the International Labour Organization said on Monday, adding governments would need to act as the numbers rise. Workers, especially the world's poorest, are more vulnerable than the general population to the dangers of climate extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes because they are often the first exposed or exposed for...

  • City of Roswell facing $637,311 fine after worker death

    ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Environment Department is issuing a fine against the City of Roswell after a city utility worker died from an injury. The incident happened in October 2023. City workers were repairing a leaking water main in a trench when the walls of the trench caved in and trapped the worker, the []

  • Chinese Cities Face Sinking Risk Due to Development and Groundwater Use

    Recent satellite data underscores a growing environmental challenge for China: significant land subsidence threatening urban areas.